The Commissioner for Human Rights in the Sverdlovsk Region Tatyana Merzlyakova and the representatives of the Union of Committees of Soldiers' Mothers met with servicemen of the Elansk garrison, participants in the massacre in early August. Recall, then, according to media reports, about 60 contractors from Tuva stormed the barracks with Sverdlovsk contract soldiers. As a result of the fight, 14 people were hospitalized with knife wounds. The Ministry of Defense denied the information about the stabbing, noting that none of the soldiers used cold weapons, and the victims received bruises and abrasions. The same point of view is followed by Tatyana Merzlyakova.

"Mass slaughter it can not be called. Nevertheless, the contractors refused to obey the order of the officer, explaining this by the fact that he was without a tunic.

In the fight that occurred, two people suffered. In general, the night conflict can not be called a bloodbath, "the press service of the Sverdlovsk Ombudsman said..

Now in the causes of the conflict, employees of the military prosecutor's office and the military-investigation committee. Tatyana Merzlyakova handed the letter to the Central Military District Attorney with the signatures of 16 parents, as well as a separate letter from the wife of one of the suspects.